Some companies allow tracking of an individual truck via the internet.

This is usually used by spouses that want to keep an eye on their husbands' location. My company is not one of these however. But it may happen one day. Lord knows I'm tracked six ways a week anyway.

You know.;)

Roger that. will get an EFC update from you.

Okay, my dispatcher signed his own death warrant and sent me back to the frozen hinterlands (again). Via LA. During rush hour. AGAIN! His ass is MINE, I tell ya!

Anyway, I'm off for Auburn, WA, near Tacoma. Anyone brave enough to venture out to meet me?

He came to his senses. The coward!

Swapped my load and went to Los Lunas NM instead. Never again will I haul to that location. Damn people said it was a drop trailer but really meant I had to unload 42000 pounds by myself, break down the pallets and restack them. All for $20. NOT worth the effort, I assure you. I can't abide liars. Turns out that all drivers to that facility either do their own or use the lumper (professional unloaders) service. Of course, MY company has no such service. So I managed to do it all in 90 minutes. You have NO idea how heavy tomato paste is until you try to drag a pallet of it up a ramp and tear it down into individual boxes and neatly restack it on another pallet.

Anyway, job complete, shit list is now a little longer and I'll be off to El Paso as soon as I feel like getting up, which won't be anytime soon. Dispatch owes me big time.

As usual, if you are in El Paso and want to meet, let me know.

I have glimpsed Hell
 

and it looks a lot like California.

Three weeks and I'm still running here. I'm SO SICK of Interstate 5 and CA99 that I could scream!

I thought for sure that I was going to escape this time with a big load out to SLC. Nope! They swapped it on me and sent me right back into the heart of LA! The worst traffic in the entire nation and they send a huge truck into it to deliver cookies of all things! A mere 12,000 pounds of cookies (in two stops yet) that could easily be carried by an LTL truck but NOOOO! *I* gotta do it. And I have to unload it by hand (so as not to crush the delicate cookies) each stop for a miniscule $20 extra.

I'm about to put in for early hometime just to get out of this Godforsaken reject from the Soviet Union cum Mexico.

Anyone want to come help me smash some cookies tomorrow morning?

Anyone? anyone?

Brian

I'll smash some cookies with you in spirit, Brian! I've never wanted to go NEAR southern Cali, myself. Northern was bad enough!

Question: Since you are a pro, maybe you have some ideas? I need to get a small amount of my belongings from Colorado Springs to just west of Durango (I-25 south to Highway 160 West). I doubt if my stuff would even take up 3 feet in the back of a moving van. I am terribly strapped for cash since I've had a number of unexpected financial set backs in the past few weeks. Are there any outfits that might take my small load as a sort of after thought to a regular one for a reasonable price? If so, how do I contact them, etc.?

Are you green with envy?
Do you wish you could climb up into the cab and look down on the world?
When you went to the cowboy movies did you envy the stagecoach driver?

ebay to the rescue! :rolleyes:

Why Oh why didn't *I* think of that?

Brian , I have driven I5 befor and I have NO Idea just how mutch of a Bitch it must be with a big rig , but the scenery ( From Up in the cab ) MUST be COOOOL !!!!
I know I ALWAYS like driveing in the summer !!!!!!

Okay Elspode. I'm here. Back row, near the scale. I strongly recommend that you park in the car area and walk back. Trucks will total your car if you park back here. They turn right in front of me.

I will be here until seven am tomorrow morning, at which time I will roll out for Columbus OH. Gotta be there by seven pm. Gonna be a tight one. Again. As usual.

Brian

I say that Denver is a boring city.

Anyone want to come out here and prove me wrong?

I'm at the Flying J exit 285 of I70

How's Shotgun doing?

pretty good. Eye is clearing up and the UTI is almost gone.

When I get her home again (in a month) she's scheduled for a follow-up and evaluation of her tumour. I'll keep y'all posted!

I'll be in Boise tomorrow morning. Who knows where from there?

Truck got washed today. Boy, it needed a bath! And have I mentioned that I hate it when they try to sell you umteen services in addition to a $36 wash?
I mean, really! I know car washes try to bump up your level of wash but do they offer to polish your chrome, use citrus-y stuff to shine the aluminum (and make the OUTSIDE smell good to boot, natch), wax, hand polish (but not the top!) and much more. THere is a LONG list of extras they can sell you. While I was waiting, I figured out that my basic wash could go up to $79 by adding in the extras. Sheesh! My Scotsmans' thrift was screaming LOUD today!

Brian